Cheap

Examples

• In reality, however, it is the goods which are cheap in the one case, and dear in the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Then I was compelled to change my plans and go upward in the air where real estate was cheap. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the midst of all this magnificence, the solid gold and silver furniture of the altar seemed cheap and trivial. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If it was cheap ugliness, I'd say nothing, but it costs as much as the other, and I don't get any satisfaction out of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It is a cheap source of illumination, but is found in relatively few localities and only in limited quantity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The strongest washing powder is soda, and this cheap form is as good as any of the more expensive preparations sold under fancy names. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Hollo,' said that eccentric functionary, 'furniter's cheap where you come from, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• For a cheap silo boards may be used, though probably shingles are the cheapest in the end. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• If the produce of domestic can be brought there as cheap as that of foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A cheap pump is then attached to the upper end of the drill pipe and serves to raise the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If for a generation or so machinery has had to wait its turn in the mine, it is simply because for a time men were cheaper than machinery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He infers from this, that their dress must, upon the whole, have been cheaper than ours; but the conclusion does not seem to follow. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Grocery goods, for example, are generally much cheaper; bread and butchers' meat frequently as cheap. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• By this plan the original plate remains untouched, and the printing from the stone is much cheaper than from the copper. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It was found cheaper and superior to either coal or charcoal, and produced a quicker fire and a greater heat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It shows that as inventions multiply, so does the demand for their better and cheaper products increase. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Another and cheaper product experimented with is the pith of the cornstalk, which is much lighter than the cocoanut fiber and serves the same purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high-grade ore. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But the public would be a gainer, the work of all artificers coming in this way much cheaper to market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Practically all silver, gold, and nickel plating is done in this way; machine, bicycle, and motor attachments are not solid, but are of cheaper material electrically plated with nickel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• For a cheap silo boards may be used, though probably shingles are the cheapest in the end. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It is one of the lightest and cheapest of automobiles, runs easily at ten to twelve miles an hour, and is an efficient hill-climber. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Damon, how strange it seems that you could have married her or me indifferently, and only have come to me because I am--cheapest! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I guess the Duchess goes where it's cheapest, unless she can get her meal paid for. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We kept no idle servants; our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When the work of actually making communication by insulated wires between places far apart came to be done, much difficulty arose as to the best and cheapest mode of doing it. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It is the cheapest transportation in the world. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The prime cost of grocery goods, therefore, being the same in both places, they are cheapest where the least profit is charged upon them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A great trader purchases his goods always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A costly and elaborate building is no better than the cheapest structure for keeping ice, if care is only taken to have it properly packed, which is very easily done after one knows how. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.

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